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DonRedwood

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Thu May 23, 2013, 07:44 PM May 2013

Imams Visit Auschwitz, Nazi Death Camp, Pray For Holocaust Victims

I gotta say... it is stories like this one that gives me hope. I don't know about you all, but it is nice to hear some good news from this part of the world.

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Muslim leaders from across the globe paid tribute Holocaust victims this week during a visit to Auschwitz, the former Nazi concentration camp, where they prayed at the Wall of Death for those who were killed by genocide and suffered under violent anti-Semitism.

The imams, who hailed from Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Bosnia, Palestine, Indonesia, Nigeria, Turkey and the United States, performed Islamic prayers while facing Mecca as part of a Holocaust awareness visit organized in part by the International Religious Freedom office of the U.S. State Department.

"What can you say? You're speechless. What you have seen is beyond human imagination," Imam Mohamed Magid, President of the U.S.-based Islamic Society of North America, told Agence France-Presse.

"Whether in Europe today or in the Muslim world, my call to humanity: End racism for God's sake, end anti-Semitism for God's sake, end Islamophobia for God's sake, end sexism for God's sake... Enough is enough," said Magid, who leads the All Dulles Area Muslim Society in Northern Virginia.

More at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/23/imams-auschwitz-muslim-nazi-holocaust_n_3326547.html

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Imams Visit Auschwitz, Nazi Death Camp, Pray For Holocaust Victims (Original Post) DonRedwood May 2013 OP
More visibility needed. Behind the Aegis May 2013 #1
I love seeing this Marrah_G May 2013 #2
There was even some Saudis in this coalition. AverageJoe90 May 2013 #3
for the posters who pretend that all muslims support extremists/terrorists etc. HiPointDem May 2013 #4
Kicking and rec'ing for more visibility. Habibi May 2013 #5
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